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Thinker of the Day | Patrick Lagadec
Work – Preventing Chaos in a Crisis
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- Lagadec argues that major crises break normal organisational routines. Standard procedures may become inadequate when institutions face unprecedented situations.
Modern disasters involve uncertainty, cascading effects and rapidly changing information. Administrators therefore need flexibility, anticipation and adaptive decision making.
A disaster can spread across interconnected systems: Disaster → Infrastructure failure → Economic disruption → Social distress → Governance crisis so, disaster management cannot remain confined to one department.
Lagadec shifts disaster management from merely responding to known hazards towards preparing institutions to act under uncertainty, complexity and systemic disruption.
Keyword of the Day | Policy Feedback | Paul Pierson
Policy feedback means the process by which existing public policies reshape political behaviour, public expectations, institutions and future policymaking, policies do not merely solve problems they also change the environment in which future policies are made.
for e.g. erstwhile MGNREGA now (VBGRAM-G )created a statutory employment entitlement and increased citizens’ awareness of their right to demand work. It also strengthened institutions such as Gram Sabhas and social audits, thereby influencing subsequent rural development governance.
Pub Ad PYQ Vault | Day 28 | PYQ (2016)
“The citizen charter makes the administration citizen-centric and transparent.” Discuss the statement in the context of administrative reforms in India.
